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Apple has said very little about sales of its Apple Watch, but a few tidbits are beginning to emerge from suppliers.

The latest nugget may have come from Taiwan’s Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc., a company that crams the watch’s many chips and sensors into a compact case through a process called system-in-package, or SiP. Read More »

Windows 10 is a welcome upgrade for PCs of all ages, not to mention a temptation even for those who strayed to the Mac during Microsoft’s darker times. But there’s one key area where it falters in a big way: core apps and services. Read More »

User satisfaction with social media websites is improving, paced by Facebook’s success with its mobile app and advertising, according to new data from the American Customer Satisfaction Index.

Facebook, which was the lowest-ranking social-media site in 2012, has climbed to the middle of the pack with the largest improvement since then, driven by growing user satisfaction with its mobile app, said ACSI Director David VanAmburg. The latest index was released Tuesday. Facebook declined to comment. Read More »

The social network is testing a feature that lets some small- and medium-sized businesses sell items through their Facebook pages. Some of these online shops allow users to browse and buy products directly on the social network. Others direct users to the retailers’ websites. Read More »

Last December, Instagram said it had purged millions of fake accounts, in an effort to provide more accurate numbers to marketers. Now, Italian security researchers say about 8% of Instagram accounts appear to be run by computer-generated “bots.”

The researchers assessed the likelihood of an account being fake by how often it posted content to the Facebook-owned image-sharing service, and by the ratio of accounts followed to followers. On average, spam-bots followed 41 users for each follower, real users just one for each follower. Read More »

Conventional wisdom says rising smartphone use is a problem for Google, because users spend more time in apps, and less time browsing the Web. A study released Monday by Forrester Research suggests Google may be doing better than thought.

The survey of nearly 2,000 U.S. smartphone users in late 2014 found they spent roughly 12% of their time in Google apps, just shy of the 13% spent in Facebook apps. Read More »

Facebook is not offering its new photo-sharing app Moments in Europe because of regulators’ concerns about its facial-recognition technology, the company’s European policy chief said Thursday.

The Moments app, which launched earlier this week in the U.S., allows users to privately share photos with friends without posting them on Facebook. The app uses facial-recognition technology to identify people and group the images based on who is in each photo. Read More »